Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them_ A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken [139]
6—I Bitch-Slap Bernie Goldberg
The Editor & Publisher survey of newspaper endorsements was published in the November 2, 2000, issue.
A Nexis search for “latchkey” through December 2001 reveals eleven relevant mentions for CNN, eleven relevant mentions for CBS News, ten relevant mentions for ABC News, and three relevant mentions for NBC News. There were also quite a few irrelevant mentions, many of which referred to something called “latchkey dogs.”
The popularity of “I Hate Israel” was reported on March 12, 2001, by the Philadelphia Inquirer; on May 3, 2001, by the Baltimore Sun; on May 20, 2001, by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; on May 27, 2001, by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; on May 30, 2001, by the Buffalo News; on June 22, 2001, by the Chicago Sun Times, Washington Post, and Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and on September 17, 2001, by the Boston Globe.
7—The 2000 Presidential Election: How It Disproved the Hypothetical Liberal Media Paradigm Matrix
If you’d like to read the Pew Charitable Trusts Project for Excellence in Journalism report on the media’s coverage of the 2000 campaign, go to http://www.journalism.org/resources/research/reports/campaign2000/lastlap/default.asp.
For more information on Gore’s exaggerated exaggerations, read Robert Parry’s piece entitled “He’s No Pinocchio,” published in the April 2000 issue of Washington Monthly. It’s also available online at http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0004.parry.html.
Bush’s military record was most prominently covered on in the May 23, 2000, Boston Globe, in a story by Walter V. Robinson.
12—The Chapter on Fox
For more on Rupert Murdoch’s riches, media holdings, and adventures in China, see Eric Alterman’s What Liberal Media?, pp. 234–242.
Roger Ailes’s Willie Horton comment has been reported in multiple publications, including in the November 14, 1988, issue of Time, under the headline “Bush’s Most Valuable Player.”
Tucker Carlson made his comment in an op-ed that appeared under the headline “Memo to the Democrats: Quit Being Losers!” in the January 19, 2003, New York Times.
13—Bill O’Reilly: Lying, Splotchy Bully
If you’d like to watch the BookExpo America panel, check out C-SPAN’s online coverage: http://booktv.org/ram/feature/0503/btv053103__4.ram. The best parts are also all over your major file-trading services.
For the record: Inside Edition won a George Polk Award in 1996 for an investigative report on insurance scams. Bill O’Reilly left the show in 1995.
O’Reilly’s childhood is discussed by him (Levittown) in the New York Observer under the headline “Fox News Superstar Bill O’Reilly Wants to Oppose Hillary in 2006!” on October 9, 2000. His mother’s version (Westbury) appears in “The Life of O’Reilly,” in the December 13, 2000, Washington Post. The real version (Westbury is not part of Levittown) appears on any good map of Long Island.
I looked up Sweden’s population in the encyclopedia.
O’Reilly called for the Ludacris boycott on August 27, 2002. He reveled in its success on August 28, 2002. And he denied it on February 4, 2003.
To see the O’Reilly vs. Ludacris obscenity count in chart form, visit http://www.soundbitten.com/archives/week__2002__09__22.html. Thanks, guys!
14—Hannity and Colmes
The article in which Sean Hannity was unable to perceive a rhetorical question is “City’s Kids Flunk the Basics,” from the March 15, 2001, New York Post.
Hannity cites a 1996 study by Paul E. Peterson of Harvard and Jay P. Greene of the University of Houston. According to “Researchers Counter Flawed Milwaukee Voucher Study,” which appeared in the November 1996 issue of On Campus magazine, Peterson and Greene failed to control for family background. When another